Read L'indomani in Italianwith every sentence explained

L'indomani by Neera was first published in 1889. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under romance. It runs to about 32,000 words.

The wedding is over. Now real life begins, and it is nothing like the novels.

Marta Oldofredi is twenty-three, intelligent and serious, and she has just married Alberto Oriani, a kind, comfortable landowner fourteen years older than she is. After the ceremony in the city, a carriage carries the newlyweds to his big old country house, with its courtyard, its wisteria and a sleepy village nearby.

Everything seems as it should be. Yet Marta cannot shake a quiet disappointment. Alberto is good-natured but busy with his farm and his loud old friends, the village has its gossip and its odd characters, and the great passion she expected from marriage has not arrived. Did she ever really love him? And can love be learned?

Neera, the pen name of Anna Radius Zuccari, was one of the most admired Italian women writers of her time. The Day After is a short, delicate and strikingly honest portrait of a young bride's inner life.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Italian feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.